Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.“It’s all electronic these days. Key pads. Thumbprint recognition.” “That’s so awesome.” “I like keys.” I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots. “Well, if people like me are a dying breed, then what’s going to happen to your business?” “We’ll become specialized,” he said, “like a typewriter shop. We’re useful now, but soon we’ll be interesting.” “Maybe you need a new business.” “I like this business.”How does the narration shape Oskar’s characterization in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place.... And when something really terrible happened—like a nuclear bomb, or at least a biological weapons attack—an extremely loud siren would go off, telling everyone to get to Central Park to put sandbags around the reservoir.What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.There was a lot of stuff that made me panicky, like suspension bridges, germs, airplanes, fireworks… A lot of the time I’d get that feeling like I was in the middle of a huge black ocean, or in deep space, but not in the fascinating way.How does the narration affect Oskar’s credibility in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.The average person falls asleep in seven minutes, but I couldn’t sleep, not after hours, and it made my boots lighter to be around his things, and to touch stuff that he had touched, and to make the hangers hang a little straighter, even though I knew it didn’t matter.How does the narration affect Oskar’s credibility in this excerpt?
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